[
US
/ˈkɫænɪʃ/
]
[ UK /klˈænɪʃ/ ]
[ UK /klˈænɪʃ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior
-
characteristic of a clan especially in being unified
clannish loyalty
How To Use clannish In A Sentence
- One of the most infamous examples in America of the Scottish tendency to clannishness is the Hatfield and McCoy feud of the 1880s in the Tug River Valley along the West Virginia and Kentucky border.
- It's the clannish attitude which drove my parents and many others far from their heritage.
- This clannishness tends to make interlopers like Swingley, who didn't start racing until he was 36, all the more conspicuous.
- The county is notorious for clannish thinking when it comes to the outside world.
- Film units were a clannish lot, not given to welcoming strangers. THE SOUND OF MURDER
- Basque immigrants tended to remain clannish at first, socializing with other Basques - often from the same villages in Europe - and patronizing Basque businesses.
- There were few aircraft and few pilots but most of those pilots had been hand-picked and there was a distinct clannishness in the organization.
- It's a nasty world, Scorsese agrees - a world of too much passion and too little sense, of ancient blood feuds and perilous clannishness.
- The sanctity of traditional ownership and lineage are hoisted like clannish flags.
- Film units were a clannish lot, not given to welcoming strangers. THE SOUND OF MURDER